The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
– Arnold Glasow



Waiting doesn’t seem like an act, but the lack of action; however,
the decision to be patient and willing to wait is an act of courage and perseverance.


A person who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
– George Savile

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
– Sheri L. Dew

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– St. Augustine


So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,
An intolerable waiting,
A longing for another place and time,
Another condition.
– Theodore Roethke


Endurance is patience concentrated.
– Thomas Carlyle


Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
-Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns


Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
– Virgil


People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
– French Proverb